Free Standing Males 4th Century Classical Period

Question 1

What is the severed sophron aesthetic of the 5th century replaced with?

Answer 1

Softer, relaxed aesthetic

More delicate features and expressions

Question 2

Why does the 4th century classical period subtly mock the gods ?

Answer 2

Loss of Peloponnesian war against Sparta 431-404

Led to conclusion that Greeks were not instruments of the Gods

Question 3

How do 4th century sculptors subtly mock the gods ?

Answer 3

Present them in human situations

Question 4

What does the effect of exaggerated contraposto have ?

Compared to 5th and Archaic

Answer 4

Creates relaxed, languid , leaning aesthetic in contrast to the serious nature of 5th and rigidity of archaic

Question 5

Which 2 Gods does Praxiteles depict in 4th century interacting

Answer 5

Hermes

Dionysus

Question 6

How does Praxiteles subtly mock Dionysus ?

Answer 6

His god-like potent status is reduced to the human-like interaction of being traded by Hermes with what the Classical consensus deem to be grapes which he reaches for.

As he reaches for grapes, the symbol of Dionysus’ power, this subtly mocks him further as he is denied them

Question 7

How is the hair realistic?

Answer 7

It becomes tousled and textured

Question 8

Which statue could you compare Praxiteles’ Hermes and Dionysus to in terms of comparing depictions of Dionysus’ power

Answer 8

Skopas’ Raging Maenad

• woman engulfed in dissolution of self

Question 9

How is the expressions on Praxitele’s Hermes and Dionysus softer?

Answer 9

Eyes are deeper set compared to the near BULBUS and serious inlaid eyes previously seen on statues like Kritios boy

Question 10

Is Praxiteles’ Hermes and Dionysus a copy or original ?

Answer 10

MYSTERY

Question 11

How is Praxiteles’ Hermes and Dionysus coherent with the Pantheon

Answer 11

Dionysus is depicted as younger as he is the youngest edition as Hestia was removed

Question 12

What really annoying thing does Praxiteles’ Hermes and Dionysus have ?

Why might we see past it?

Answer 12

Bloody SUPPORTS

however could be marble copy !

Question 13

What is Lysippos’ Apoxyomenos doing ?

Answer 13

“The man scraping himself with a strigil”

Question 14

How does Lysippos’ Apoxyomenos’ proportions differ from Polykleitos’ canon?

Answer 14

Head is smaller (1:8 ratio) than the 1:7 set out by Polykleitos

Question 15

Does Lysippos’ Apoxyomenos depict a god ?

Answer 15

NO NORMAL DUDE

Question 16

What does the the thicker face of Lysippos’ Apoxyomenos show?

Answer 16

Shift towards portraiture

Lysippos was Alexander’s court sculptor

Question 17

How do they extended limbs provide an all round view ?

Answer 17

They break the frontal plain encouraging you to walk around the whole statue appreciating what it is doing

Question 18

What is the effect of the Lysippos’ Apoxyomenos’ foreshortening

Answer 18

It is foreshortened from every angle meaning that it is not possible to obtain an uninterrupted perspective of the statue’s body